This cycle of works explores the Cyprus conflict on a personal level. Currently a work in progress, it will consist of a photographic series and an experimental-narrative film.

The film follows a Greek-speaking Cypriot woman and a Turkish-speaking Cypriot woman whose lives intersect through loss and memory, as they navigate the landscape and reclaim their personal spaces, moving beyond imposed narratives and borders to craft their own.

Nature plays a central role in my work, not just as a backdrop, but as an active participant in the narrative. The photographic series delves into how nature can serve as a repository of memory, embodying both the scars of violence and the potential for healing. The landscapes of Cyprus, marked by massacres, unmarked graves, and landmines, raise questions about the interplay between human conflict and the environment. Does the soil remember, and if so, how is that memory manifested? Is nature a passive witness, a blank canvas for human actions, or does it respond in ways we have yet to fully comprehend?

The photographic cycle seeks to capture the atmosphere of these spaces, where the weight of history lingers and the line between past and present blurs. Through this work, I aim to investigate how landscape shapes, and is shaped by, the traumas it silently holds. The film looks at how conflict, closure, and trauma can be confronted and overcome on a personal level, and how individuals must construct their own journey, their own narrative, to step outside a past that offers no resolution on its own.